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Microsoft Edge showed significant performance gains over Google Chrome, but what's most impressive is that Microsoft used benchmarks created by Apple and Google. Google's Chrome web browser is the most popular web browser in the world right now, according to StatCounter. But Microsoft's new web browser for Windows 10, called Edge, might prove to be superior. In a Windows blog post on Wednesday, Gabe Aul, Microsoft's head of the Windows Insider programme, announced a new set of benchmarks for Microsoft Edge, the company's new web browser made for Windows 10. Microsoft Edge showed significant performance gains over Google Chrome, but what's most impressive is that Microsoft used benchmarks created by Apple and Google: Edge was tested using Google Octane, Apple JetStream, and WebKit Sunspider. That last one is actually a benchmark created by Apple's WebKit development team that's intended for the iOS, Mac, and Windows versions of Safari, Apple'...

NEW DELHI: US software major Microsoft Corporation says its newly-developed White-Fi technology can provide free Wi-Fi connectivity to a large section of the Indian population, thus, giving a boost to the Prime Minister's Digital India initiative. White-Fi or television White-Space technology works like Wi-Fi on a bigger scale. "TV White-Space technology puts the unused spectrum in the TV channels to a good effect," Prashant Shukla, national technology officer at Microsoft India, told ET. "This technology has potential to provide free connectivity to large sections of the Indian population through wider coverage and economical deployment and licence-free access." Microsoft argues that low density of population and low-income group segments remain unattractive to commercial telecom providers, and in such a scenario, White-Fi technology can be best suited to provide digital connectivity. To make India truly digital, it is critical to extend broadband in rural...

Most of the cuts at Microsoft will be in the phone division, and the company will write down the value of its phone business acquired from Nokia by some $7.6 billion. WASHINGTON: Microsoft on Wednesday announced plans to cut 7,800 jobs along with a reorganization of its Windows Phone unit which has struggled in the mobile market. The move represents the second major round of layoffs in a year for Microsoft, which  cut some 18,000 jobs a year ago  as part of its effort to integrate the Nokia handset division. Most of the cuts at the US tech giant will be in the phone division, and the company will write down the value of its  phone business acquired from Nokia  by some $7.6 billion A Microsoft statement said it would "restructure the company's phone hardware business to better focus and align resources." Microsoft has failed to get much traction for its Windows Phone platform even with the acquisition of Nokia. A survey by IDC said Windows was expected to captur...